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On the Overland Trail.
Here's a song for the '(lays, the heroic
old days
When the west tried thotmettle of
resoluto men,
Ere the sun of progression had melted
tho haze
Of the mystery hiding tho landfrom
our kon
Here's a song for tho heroes, tho
cusses" so - tough,
Who popped their great whips when
the schooners set sail
JAnd sang their wild songs as their
pipes tliey would puff
While pounding along on the Over
land trail.
INot a snap of their calloused old fin
gers cared they
For the dangers awaiting them out
or me plains
Ls they yellel at their hulls and went
roiling away
gin the alkali dust of the slow-mov-
Inn trains.
igray through the billows of flicker
ing neat.
iUpheld by a courage that never could
rail.
i "j.wBSfith a sneer for the perils they knew
they would meet
llle pounding along on the Over
land trail.
Che signal from scouts who were
sleuthinc ahead:
iTh parking of wagons with panic
le less haste; ;
id wild savnge yells that would
waken the dead:
?he Indian sallv defiantly faced.
le battle, the flight of the reds in
deleat:
me graves over which the coyotes
would wail:
I on moved the train through the
'r shimmerine heat
Chat qnivored and danced on the
Overland trail ,
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tlio CTPnh whlnn
gr 'vsfc&timThnt popped o'er the backs of the
m ) VJfiflHL InhnrlriP- hulls'
o choie not tiiejanguago that rolled
from their 11ns
When the wheels "furrowed sand In
IV the hardest' of. nulls?
'But few yet nr'p dodging the Reaper's
Keen blade,
Yet totter down life's ever-narrowing
vale--
lYet linger and drpam of the parts
that they played'
While pounding along on the Over
land trail.
Here's a song for the lively old days
that are irono.
, Are, now 'but a blur upon memory's
page, ;
When the fastest of freight was by bull
power, drawn
And the fastest -express was the
lumbering stage.
The tourist who now in rare luxury
rolls
Tn palace car over the clftterlntr mil
Gives never a thought to the valiant
old souls,
Who potnuW along on the Over
land trail.
fr James Barton Adams in Denver Post.
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Franco seems to be the center of the
pictorial postcard fad. Tt is estimated
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v Street cars run under ground in thp
center of St. Petersburg-and overhend
Jn the Riiburb3. The fare is 2.57 and
'3.9 cents for inside seats, and half
if cent less for outside seats.
Tn the vallev of Petrnn, In Luxem
bourg, Germany, stands tho largest
single span of any masonry brfdere in
the world, with a length of 277 feet
an1 a height of "102 feet.
Cnmillq Flammarion, the astron
omer and social reformer, has intro
duced a bill in the French chamber of
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deputies for the rationalizing of the
calendar. He wants the year to start
with the vernal equinox and to con
sist of 304 days.
Gosnold, the smallest town in Massa
chusetts, comprises those little species
of land which, beginning at Wood's
Holl, at tho "shoulder" of old Cape
Cod's right arm, extend seaward till
they terminate in that fatal reef of the
Sow and Pigs.
The French industry of raising flow
ers for the manufacture of perfume
has been greatly Injured by the chem
ical odora and artificial ethereal oils
produced in Germany, as the latter sell
at a lower price and are hardly dis
tinguishable from the genuine.
The principal routes taken by mi
gratory birds, as registered in books
of natural history, show a wonderful
geographical instinct on the part of the
feathered bipeds, as they take, for the
most part, the seas and oceans at their
narrowest and the river valleys at
their longest
Miss Minnlo Schenclc of Williams
port, Pa., Is declared to be the cham
pion woman rifle shot of the world,
having just established a record of 20
consecutive bullseyes at 200 yards.
Miss Schenck, who uses a 32-calibro
rifle, Is a terror to sparrows. Out of
56 e' ots she did not miss one, using a
32-calibre rifle.
Tho state of Minnesota has no valid
inheritance law on its statute books.
Judge Bunn of tho Ramsey tounty
court holds that the law of 1901 Is un
constitutional and invalid, and deci
sions of other courts have already
found irreparable flaws In tho laws of
1897 and 1902, so that there Is no in
heritance law whatever. -Pittsburg
Dispatch.
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Washington, In which congress sits,
and that picture Is an apt indication
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